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't'"". ......i •AINS30<ESTHOUGArl N scale in the nineties COMMENTARY BY TONY KOESTER Alo one's been sitting on the edge of a Appalachia. Shadows were dark and i •chair waiting to hear my opinions on sharp. Colors seemed right. N scale. But 1 recently had a chance to get a good look at two excellent yet quite dif- Geeps was ready to leave town with a ferent N scale model railroads, and I'd like long freight, and those two units oozed to share some of my impressions. through the yard throat like a wet bar of Most of you are familiar with one of the soap through your fingers. Slack came railroads: Bill and Wayne Reid's Cum- out of that train a car at a time! And, as berland Valley System, modeling Penn- the train rolled along, the shimmy and sylvania RR and Western Maryland oper- wobble I'd expected from N scale rolling ations around Hagerstown, Md. The other stock were almost entirely lacking. is known only byreputation: Steve King's "We do put friction devices on all of Virginia Midland, one of the partners in the caboose axles to keep the slack the Appalachian Lines merger system stretched," the Reids noted. But, like care(the others are Allen McClelland's Vir- ginian & Ohio and my own Allegheny ply part of the art of model railroading. Midland, both HO scale). Manyyears ago, I bought some N scale equipment. Most of it was rather disap- enjoy the results. ful attention to other details, this is simFind the problem, create the solution, I came away from that all-too-brief visit pointing, with overly large couplers and with the feeling that there was nothing flanges. Much of the body die work was intrinsicallywrong with N scale in terms excellent, however, so obviously 1:160 of scale appearance and smooth running. modeling had potential. But the selection But could you actually operate with it? of locomotives was too limited for my needs, and only the Con-Cor PA-1 ran up An operating session with my old friend to expectations - make that requirements Steve King would answer that part of my - so I stuck with HO. I don't regret that decision, as the HO ingly larger and more sophisticated ver- scale Midland Road has met my expec- sions of his N scale Virginia Midland. tations. All the same, like most HO mod- Steve also loves operation like few peoelers, I'll wager, I occasionally wonder ple you'll meet, and he's never given up how the Allegheny Midland would look on N scale. Of course, he smiles a lot in N scale. Could I be satisfied with its more these days, now that Kato makes appearance and operation? six-axle diesel units that rival anything in the larger scales. To answer that question for myself, I visI marked up for a coal extra and spent 7.15 7.90 $5.15 5.95 ited what I suspect is one of the finest N the first hour or so shoving hoppers here scale model railroads on the continent, and there on a branch and then hauling Bill and Wayne's Cumberland Valley. Mae them down the main line. The quality of azine coverage such as the July 1990 modern N scale locomotive chassis made MODEL RAILROADER article whetted my a positive impression on me from the appetite. The Reids share my interest in moment I advanced the throttle. In fact, Appalachian coal railroading, so I'd have the only real hitch I found in switching a chance to see if two highly regarded the mines was that the empty hoppers modelers could "pull it off' in the eyes of are extremely light. One errant touch and a skeptical HO railroader. To say that I was impressed would be to rerailit usually derailed adjacent cars a substantial understatement. WOW! Bill as well. Surely I could get better at that and Wayne's railroad has none of the with time; no one types or plays the piano gross details that have too often charac- well from day one. terized N scale modeling. Window mul- The VM had progressed to the point lions, porch railings, signs, posts, roof where virtually all the landform scenery thickness - you name it, and they did it was in place, at least to the extent of beautifully. Their buildings are charac- green-painted plaster mountains without terized by delicately thin cross sections trees. The layout's edge paneling was in that defy attempts to discern the model- place too, but it was still hard to visualize Ing scale from photographs. the way Steve's layout will look when The brothers had also flooded their trees cover the slopes and depots are railroad with light. Bright fluorescent painted in a single company color bulbs bathed scenes evenly in the cool- scheme. Similarly, few VM locomotives white "sunlight" that so nicely comple- and cars had been through the paint ments the verdant greens and blues of shop, so the visual cohesiveness that But would it run? A pair of Pennsy , -1 - --: 1-·,7'417*¥F-·0'•1'*:*i:,•'i·-· --· -·'•:S.-1 . question. He's built a series of increasa car was on the ground, and my efforts.